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Alessandro Vecchi (1870 points)
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Good morning, everyone,

while I was taking a look in the Italian Q2A forum I read many questions related to some "secret tests" and I saw many students actually worried about them. What are they and what do we have to do to pass them (if we also have them)?
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benjamin (2490 points)
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I am pretty sure we have them. Their purpose is to catch if someone Hardcoded the solution. ( returning a specific value when a specific test is ran ).
Francesco.Danese (2140 points)
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If your code is completely legit (no cheating, no trick after looking in tests files) you don't have to worry at all, if you pass normal tests it will pass also secret ones ;)
andrea.sterbini (207920 points)
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They are medium-sized tests, plus some borderline (but small) cases.
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so if we pass every test without hardcoding the solutions we don't have to worry?

Or should we still think about covering other borderline cases?

And when will this secret tests have place?

thanks in advance!!
andrea.sterbini (207920 points)
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They are run after the last deadline.

You always have to think to borderline cases, it's you job as a developer :-)